Sentences with phrase «lizard tail»

And if the best gripe I have for the game is that it tells me what a Lizard Tail is when I pick it up a few times, clearly, this game has very few problems and is just a lot of fun through and through.

Each successful run of RIVAL CHASE will unlock the following in this order: Bigfoot, Lizard Tail, Luna Queen, Danny Edge, & Mr. Crown.

I found myself talking to the coyote bush, the Indian paintbrush, and the lizard tail.

There is a very diverse mix of 39 native species within this plant palette, including sticky monkey - flower, mock heather, and lizard tail.

Not exact matches

As she made a pitch to the audience to invest in her business, Critters and Conservation, she lured Togi, a Congo African gray parrot with a stunning red tail, out of his cage to perform a head - bobbing dance on her hand and then moved Señor Lagarto, a three - foot - plus - long Colombian Tegu lizard, onto her shoulder.

The lizard with severed tail able to grow a new one, a sea star with severed arm able to regenerate what was lost, a forest taken out by fire able to start anew, a body that has lost blood able to restore its supply.

Here is the article that published this research, in ScienceDaily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080417112433.htm Quote: «Tail clips taken for DNA analysis confirmed that the Pod Mrcaru lizards were genetically identical to the source population on Pod Kopiste.»

In order to kill a lizard you must make sure the head is chopped off we are now cutting the tail and thinking we hve solved the issue no way guys lets wake up before it tooo late.

After losing their tail, lizards end up with damaging changes to their DNA.

The tail will regrow, but it will not be a perfect replacement of the original, and if a lizard loses a leg it will never regrow.

Lizards will often shed their tails to escape a predator.

On Skyros, the wall lizards still attack youngsters — as many lizard species do — but this usually involves nibbling off a stray toe or tail.

He and Caldwell add that although the fossil has more vertebrae in its body than in its tail, the tail isn't short, but longer than that of many living lizards.

Any kid knows that if you grab a lizard by its tail, it can snap off the tip and run away.

When Goldman fed this torrent of data into a computer model, he discovered that the main mechanism underlying sand swimming was a wave that passed from head to tail, pushing off from the sand and generating enough thrust to propel the lizard forward.

Basilisk lizards got their names from the mythological animal with the body of a lizard, the head of a cock, and a snake's tail and fangs.

The researchers, playing predators, scared the lizards by touching their tails with a paintbrush and recorded where the lizards went.

Get a cut on your finger and your skin can make new cells to heal the wound; lose your tail — if you are a particular kind of lizard — and tissue regeneration may produce a new one.

Movement is also an essential component of the territorial displays of lizards, comprising tail, limb, head and whole - body movements.

During the Iran - Iraq war in the 1980s, troop movement and heavy bombing had a serious impact on the two countries» shared fragile desert ecosystem, which is home to such species as sand cats and spiny - tailed lizards.

But when the robot lifted its tail after it left the ramp — just enough to make up for the vehicle's forward pitch — it landed even more gracefully than the lizards.

The lizards keep their balance during flight, Full found, by moving their tails up and down to counteract the motion of their bodies and keep themselves stable.

So had the crest - tailed mulgara, a hamster - sized marsupial that preys on lizards and insects.

That's a good thing for the skink, because lizards can drop their tails when in danger and regrow them later.

While the ability to lose and regenerate the tail may save a lizard's life, it isn't without costs.

The technique is effective, but the tail can account for about a quarter of the lizard's body mass.

Bradford Hollingsworth and Dustin Wood, herpetologists at the San Diego Natural History Museum, reply: Losing a tail is a significant event in a lizard's life.

Between 1983 and 1989, an average of 2.2 million of these stocky, long - tailed lizards were traded yearly.

When attacked, a lizard releases its tail either by direct trauma or sometimes before it is even touched.

But when Jagnandan observed leopard geckos with a tail in his laboratory, he realized that they wag it as they walk, suggesting that these movements may be key to the lizards» locomotion.

A lizard's stripes may make them look like they're moving slower than they really are, confusing predators that tend to aim at the head but may wind up with the tail.

While animals such as certain monkeys, lizards, and rodents have soft, cylindrical - shaped tails, the tails of seahorses are organized into square prisms surrounded by bony plates.

Like many present - day lizard species, such as skinks, that can detach their tails to escape or distract a predator, the middle of many tail vertebrae had cracks in them.

Loudmouthed Lizard The bark of the flat - tailed gecko is much worse than its bite.

Tails in lizards and arms in starfish show an astounding ability to regrow, but mammals have partially lost the capacity to extensively regenerate body parts, Dr. Zhu said.

This article appeared in print under the headline «On tameness and tail - dropping in island lizards»

But for Erhard's wall lizard, found across Greece's Cyclades islands, its tendency to jettison the tail — and indeed its tolerance for disturbance — depends on which island it lives on.

LIZARDS are famed for a rather extreme escape tactic — they shed their tails to avoid predation.

In lab tests, Brock also found that lizards from safer islands were less likely to ditch their tails when put under physical pressure through pressing.

We were the boys who cried out when the other boys pulled the tails off lizards.

Unfortunately, this gross - out story gets worse: The dead lizard was missing its tail.

There's Drask, who's this big lizard dude, who uses a large tail for a big attack.

Storybooks said it was the hat of an enormous Chinese man who slept under the sea, but my grandmother told me it was the tail of a massive lizard whose large, jagged back made up the mountains along our house.

It turns in with the agility of a chameleon's tongue, and it hangs on like a lizard to a vertical wall — until it eventually whips its tail like an angry croc.

Every day, sometimes even three times a day, the nameless man in that story visits the Jardin des Plantes to stare at the strange little animals in their cramped aquarium, at their translucent milky bodies and delicate lizard's tails, their pink, flat, triangular Aztec faces and tiny feet with nearly humanlike fingers, the odd reddish sprigs that sprout from their gills, the golden glow of their eyes, the way they hardly ever move, only now and then twitching their gills, or abruptly swimming with a single undulation of their bodies.

On board one such vessel, the captain's log includes the tusks and legs of elephant herds; rubies, emeralds, topaz; fragrant mountains of cinnamon, cardamom, mustard seeds; forests of bony, teak, and sandalwood; screeching peacocks; caged and pacing leopards; ten - foot - long monitor lizards whipping their razor tails; barrels of fermented coconut toddy; the jewel - encrusted thrones of Kandyan kings; the weapons of Chola warriors; priceless texts in Pali and Sanskrit, Sinhala and Tamil.

If roughly handled, and the tail drops, it won't be regenerated like other lizard does.

If the heads are not destroyed, the tapeworms can regenerate, much like a lizard can regrow its tail.

Bearded Dragons Don't Regenerate Body Parts Unlike some lizards, bearded dragons will not re-grow tails, legs, or anything else.

Their tail is generally half the length of their body, and unlike other lizards will not fall off and regenerate when threatened.